n. 1 copyist, copier, transcriber, Archaic scrivener; amanuensis, clerk, secretary Before the invention of movable type printing, copies of books and documents were prepared by scribes 2 writer, author, penman, scrivener, wordsmith, scribbler, hack, penny-a-liner; dramatist, dramaturge, playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, columnist, technical writer; journalist, gentleman or lady of the press, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, reporter, rewrite man or woman or person, editor, reviewer, commentator, newswriter, sob sister, agony aunt or uncle, Miss Lonelyhearts, gossip columnist, member of the fourth estate, Brit paragraphist, leader-writer, US Grub Streeter, Colloq Brit journo In a general way, he refers to all writers as 'scribes', but particularly those he considers a bit old-fashioned
v. 3 inscribe, incise, etch, engrave, mark, scratch, score, grave, scrimshaw, carve, chase or enchase The shotgun was scribed with the most beautiful designs, some inlaid in gold